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... labor in those early times . Two more patents were issued during the year 1790. The second went to Joseph S. Sampson of Boston for a method of making candles , and the third to Oliver Evans , of whom we shall learn more presently , for ...
... labor in those early times . Two more patents were issued during the year 1790. The second went to Joseph S. Sampson of Boston for a method of making candles , and the third to Oliver Evans , of whom we shall learn more presently , for ...
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... colonial period , however , cotton never became the leading crop , hardly an important crop . Cot- ton could be grown profitably only where there was an abundant supply of exceedingly cheap labor , and ELI WHITNEY AND THE COTTON GIN 33.
... colonial period , however , cotton never became the leading crop , hardly an important crop . Cot- ton could be grown profitably only where there was an abundant supply of exceedingly cheap labor , and ELI WHITNEY AND THE COTTON GIN 33.
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was an abundant supply of exceedingly cheap labor , and labor in America , white or black , was never and could never be as cheap as in India . American slaves could be much more profitably employed in the cultivation of rice and indigo ...
was an abundant supply of exceedingly cheap labor , and labor in America , white or black , was never and could never be as cheap as in India . American slaves could be much more profitably employed in the cultivation of rice and indigo ...
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... labor of one man to turn it and with which one man will clean ten times as much cotton as he can in any other way before known and also cleanse it much better than in the usual mode . This machine may be turned by water or with a horse ...
... labor of one man to turn it and with which one man will clean ten times as much cotton as he can in any other way before known and also cleanse it much better than in the usual mode . This machine may be turned by water or with a horse ...
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... of the South . The supposed economic necessity of slave labor led great men to defend slavery , and politics in the South became largely the defense of slavery against the aggression , real or fancied , of the free 50 THE AGE OF INVENTION.
... of the South . The supposed economic necessity of slave labor led great men to defend slavery , and politics in the South became largely the defense of slavery against the aggression , real or fancied , of the free 50 THE AGE OF INVENTION.
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afterwards Albany American balloon became began Benjamin Franklin better boat Boston Boulton and Watt brothers built Canal CHAPTER Charles Goodyear chine Clermont cloth colonies Colt Congress cotton gin Curtiss discovery Dwight Goddard dynamo early Edison electricity Eli Whitney England experiments factory farm father flying Haven Henry Howe's hundred idea improved industry invention inventor James Watt John Stevens labor Langley later light Livingston locomotive London Lowell machinery manufacture mechanical ment miles Miller mills Morse motor newspapers Oliver Evans partners Patent Act Pennsylvania Philadelphia ploughs practical principle printing produced profits railway reaper Robert Fulton rubber Samuel Samuel Colt SAMUEL F. B. MORSE says sewing machine sold soon South spinning steam engine steamboat story success telegraph thousand dollars tion took turn United Washington Whitney's wings wire Wright York young